The use of comparisons to explain, analyze and understand social and economic phenomena is recognized as a valuable social science tool. This textbook deals with the differences in management and organization between nations and their effects on multinational enterprises. In comparing management practice across the world, the authors cover themes such as national cultures, diversity and globalization. Students are guided through the key business disciplines, providing a broad introduction to the field and including truly global coverage. With student and instructor friendly resources such as chapter summaries, mini-case scenarios, larger case studies and power-point slides, this book is core reading for students of international business and international management.

The use of comparisons to explain, analyze and understand social and economic phenomena is recognized as a valuable social science tool. This textbook deals with the differences in management and organization between nations and their effects on multinational enterprises. In comparing management practice across the world, the authors cover themes such as national cultures, diversity and globalization. Students are guided through the key business disciplines, providing a broad introduction to the field and including truly global coverage. With student and instructor friendly resources such as chapter summaries, mini-case scenarios, larger case studies and power-point slides, this book is core reading for students of international business and international management.

Organization behaviour has become a well established multidisciplinary field, drawing on concepts from sociology and psychology, as well as from economics, industrial and labour relations, political science, production engineering and social anthropology. It applies academic disciplines to the practical realm of business in order to reveal the underlying structures and human dynamics that influence the day to day reality of management throughout the world. The IEBM Handbook of Organizational Behaviour offers a comprehensive reference guide to organizational behaviour thinking and practice. This one volume edition brings together a collection of original essays, integrating the respective elements of organizational behaviour into a unified field of study.

'...there is... no lack of ambition in this book. And yet, unlike much of what today comes as sociology, it is fun to read, written in a way that combines the very abstract and the very concrete, the principles of general theories and the anecdotes of specific histories, in ways that are enlightening and entertaining at the same time. Those who take the book to heart will find themselves in possession of a language that can speak about 'globalization' in a non-sensationalist manner without, however, in any way detracting from its significance - in fact, quite to the contrary. They will much better and more systematically understand the lasting significance of the local in a world whose horizons of action are expanding.' From the Foreword by Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne The rhetoric of internationalization and globalization often suggests an inexorable move away from domestic cultural and institutional differences. Yet the development of internationalization within individual nations has been shaped by those very domestic institutions and cultures, as 'best practice' or other kinds of international learning have been translated into established practice and knowledge. In this important study, Arndt Sorge presents a sociological theory of the development of human societies to explain how business systems evolve and change, and how internationalization works to specify and change societal identities within nations. Examining changes in work, organization, corporate governance, and human resources, Sorge shows how this interaction is a pattern that has been followed over centuries. Indeed, amongst the cases Sorge presents, he concentrates on the example of Germany, a supposedly highly homogeneous and closed society, as evidence for the universality of shifting borders, expanding horizons, local adoption and adaptation of global practices, and the hybridization of systems and standards, as the normal course of social evolution. Arndt Sorge's analysis of globalization combines rigorous theoretical reasoning with empirically-grounded analysis, and deliberately adopts a general social science approach, drawing on research from Business and Management Studies, Sociology, Political Science, and History.

'...there is... no lack of ambition in this book. And yet, unlike much of what today comes as sociology, it is fun to read, written in a way that combines the very abstract and the very concrete, the principles of general theories and the anecdotes of specific histories, in ways that are enlightening and entertaining at the same time. Those who take the book to heart will find themselves in possession of a language that can speak about 'globalization' in a non-sensationalist manner without, however, in any way detracting from its significance - in fact, quite to the contrary. They will much better and more systematically understand the lasting significance of the local in a world whose horizons of action are expanding.' From the Foreword by Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne The rhetoric of internationalization and globalization often suggests an inexorable move away from domestic cultural and institutional differences. Yet the development of internationalization within individual nations has been shaped by those very domestic institutions and cultures, as 'best practice' or other kinds of international learning have been translated into established practice and knowledge. In this important study, Arndt Sorge presents a sociological theory of the development of human societies to explain how business systems evolve and change, and how internationalization works to specify and change societal identities within nations. Examining changes in work, organization, corporate governance, and human resources, Sorge shows how this interaction is a pattern that has been followed over centuries. Indeed, amongst the cases Sorge presents, he concentrates on the example of Germany, a supposedly highly homogeneous and closed society, as evidence for the universality of shifting borders, expanding horizons, local adoption and adaptation of global practices, and the hybridization of systems and standards, as the normal course of social evolution. Arndt Sorge's analysis of globalization combines rigorous theoretical reasoning with empirically-grounded analysis, and deliberately adopts a general social science approach, drawing on research from Business and Management Studies, Sociology, Political Science, and History.

Burkart Lutz 1. Schwachen und Verkurzungen der fruhen Transformationsforschung Die tiefgreifenden Veranderungen in den wirtschaftlichen und politischen Verhaltnissen Ostdeutschlands und in den Lebensbedingungen und Lebens chancen der ostdeutschen Bevolkerung, die im Gefolge der deutschen Einheit vonstatten gingen, losten - unterstutzt durch eine grossere Zahl von Forder programmen - einen regelrechten Boom an Untersuchungen aus, fur die sich sehr schnell der Oberbegriff der "Transformationsforschung" durchsetzte. Ih ren Fragestellungen und den Analysen und Interpretationen der Veroffentli chungen, die aus ihnen hervorgingen, lag nahezu durchgangig eine Argumen tationsfigur zugrunde, die weit uber die Wissenschaft hinaus die offentliche Diskussion bestimmte und die man geradezu als Paradigma der fruhen Trans formationsforschung bezeichnen kann. Sie lasst sich ohne unzulassige Verein fachung in zwei Thesen zusammenfassen: 1. Der rasche Transfer der westdeutschen Institutionen in die ostdeutsche Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft loste Anpassungsprozesse in nahezu allen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen aus, die fruher oder spater - spontan oder mit Unterstutzung staatlicher Hilfsprogramme - in einer weitgehenden Angleichung an die Verhaltnisse munden werden, die sich in West deutschland (wie in allen anderen westlichen Industrienationen) seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg herausgebildet haben. 2. Die westlichen Verhaltnisse liefern demzufolge die adaquate Folie und die zu ihrer Analyse entwickelten Konzepte und Methoden das geeignete Instrument zur Untersuchung der transformationsbedingten Veranderun gen."